Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

California-based artists Bruce and Norman Yonemoto deconstruct and rewrite the hyperbolic vernacular with which the mass media constructs cultural mythologies. Ironically employing the image-language and narrative syntax of popular forms, such as soap opera, Hollywood melodrama and TV advertising, they work from "the inside out" to expose the media's pervasive manipulation of reality and fantasy.   full biography

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1979, 42:54 min, color, sound
 
1979, 24:15 min, color, sound
 
1982, 79:15 min, color, sound
 
1984, 27:40 min, color, sound
 
1984, 11:45 min, color, sound
 
1986, 26 min, color, sound
 
1988, 15:30 min, color, sound
 
1990, 56:12 min, color, sound
 
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
1992, 24 min, color, sound
 
A Tale of Two Cities
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
ahistory
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Amnesia
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Blown Up
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Circular Rites
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Europe Feed Back Day
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Fire! The Memory
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Happy New Order
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Jamais l'un sans l'autre (Never one without the other)
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Nation
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Paradigm Shift
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
TRANSVOICES: transgressions
1992, 60 sec, color, sound
 
Two Faces of One Room
1992, 1 min, color, sound
 
Wanderers Nightsong
1992, 60 sec, color, sound
 
1996, 30 min, color, sound
 
2006, 11:14 min, color, sound
 
 

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